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Sunday, 18 February 2018

Nikki Haley’s Big Lies on Syria

US ambassadors notoriously lie for their country. Haley does it repeatedly, again during a Wednesday Security Council session on Syria – a beginning-to-end recitation of Big Lies fooling no one.

Haley: Earlier this week, “Iranian-backed militias in southern Syria launched a drone into Israeli territory. It was an egregious and unprompted escalation…Israel rightly took action to defend itself. The United States will always stand by our ally when confronted with provocations from Iran, Hezbollah, or” Syria.

Haley: “Last week, (Syrian) forces launched an unprovoked attack against the Syrian Democratic Forces and advisers from the Defeat ISIS Coalition. This was a large attack involving numerous tanks, artillery, and fighters. The Coalition acted in self-defense to repel the attack, and the United States will always reserve the right to act in self-defense.”

Fact: Syrian forces acted in self-defense, not the so-called “coalition,” comprised of Washington with a little help from its rogue allies.

Haley: “(T)his attack shows the recklessness of” government forces.

Fact: The attack was an act of US aggression. Its presence in Syria is lawless, its terror-bombing responsible for massacring civilians, causing vast destruction – major war crimes under international law.

Haley: Assad is “a front for Iran, Hezbollah, and their allies to advance the irresponsible and dangerous agenda for the Middle East.”

Fact: Syria is a sovereign independent state threatening no others. In 2011, Obama launched aggression for regime change. Trump escalated what he began – both US regimes advancing a “dangerous agenda for the Middle East.”

Haley: “On every front of this conflict, we find fighters imported by Iran from Lebanon, Iraq, and Afghanistan. When we see the Assad regime starving civilians in eastern Ghouta or pummeling schools and hospitals in Idlib, we see advisers from Iran and Hezbollah helping direct those atrocities.”

Fact: Syrian and allied forces, including Iranian advisors, greatly aided by Russian airpower, are combating US-supported terrorists – atrocities committed by them and US terror-bombing, not the other way around.